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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Pixar lamp choosing where to strike:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only defense are serifs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They might have helped but we've seen how it fared regardless

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better version:

The alphabet from the front and above:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
––––‒‒––·‒–‒— –––––‒–––—––‒

This corresponds almost perfectly with Roboto on my Android phone. Characters featured:

  • U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT (I)
  • U+2012 ‒ FIGURE DASH (EFJLSZ)
  • U+2013 – EN DASH (ABCDGHKNOPQRTUVXY)
  • U+2014 — EM DASH (MW)
  • U+200A   HAIR SPACE (put in the middle cuz M&W are too wide for any dash)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This was my first thought, thanks for doing it.

It drives me mad that the em dash isn't the width of the M!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

M and W should be wider than the rest, shouldn't they?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe it’s a monospaced font

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's not how monospaced fonts work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Then the "i" would likely be a dash too

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

em dash to the rescue! —

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if it's allegorical

Nor if they are all the same letter or same size letters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I and J are already different

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And the other side.

ZYXWVUTƧЯϘᕋOИM⅃ꓘႱIHӘᖷƎꓷƆꓭA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

| | | | | | | | i | | | l | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Where is j?

[–] moosetwin 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I've seen this post on lemmy like 50 times over the last few days

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, damn. Somehow I must have missed it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

First time I'm seeing it!